Art in a phone box

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Photo: Gallery on the Green

An art gallery in a phone box! What a great idea.

“We believe the Gallery on the Green is the smallest public art gallery in the world. Certainly it is the only one to be open 24/7 and filled to capacity at least twice a day!!”

For more details on the Gallery on The Green, Settle, UK, go to their website – https://www.galleryonthegreen.org.uk/about/

(Update 2026: I first blogged about this in 2009 but deleted the post as it had no images and the link to the BBC article was no longer active. I later visited Settle and those images can be found here – https://phonebox.webster-smalley.co.uk/wp-admin/post.php?post=3418&action=edit .)

Liverpool Cathedral

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This box can be found inside Liverpool Cathedral, England. It was placed here as a memorial to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the designer of the red telephone box, and on whose design the Cathedral was based.

Source: Wikipedia, Liverpool Cathedral.

More television

The Americans (S1 E4). Spies and phones go together. This is just one of a number of examples in the series.

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Smithfields, London

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Dungeness, Kent

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Coins not accepted in this corner of Kent.

Local history

I was working in the stores for the Bexleyheath Heritage Trust yesterday and came across this old telephone switchboard…

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History

While in Bern (lovely city) we visited the Museum of Communications. Here are some shots of historical phone equipment:

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More films

Off topic – sort of

This article isn’t exactly about phone boxes but the first paragraph does indicate how they were once an integral part of life…

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